Kept getting problems installing update but kept retrying and it went through

I kept getting this error after the update has been downloaded (the first of the 3 segments of the progress bar). Obviously I can't report it because I cannot bring up the "Report a Problem" dialog since I cannot get past the error screen without going offline so I'm reporting it here.

I don't know what fixed it, it's a combination of rebooting, power cycling, skipping update, going offline then back online, kept pressing "Try again" button until it works (and proceeds to verify step). It's been going on for a while (3 months so far) and each update took a long time to get to verify step because of this. During this whole process, I occasionally click on "Check Network" to make sure the Xbox can talk to Xbox Live, I'd always get "It's all good" screen.

When I looked up the error code, 0x80072EE2, MS told me it's me having issues with network connection, but I did not have any issue that I can see. To rule out DNS issue (I'm running a PiHole as well), I changed the DNS to Google DNS (8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4), also tried Quad9 and CloudFlare DNS as well (9.9.9.9 and 1.1.1.1, respectively), same result.

At the time of posting this, the console has been updated to the latest version (2108.210601-2200, as of 6/4, 4am PDT) successfully, just took me 20 minutes of kept pressing "Try again".

Any idea what's causing this and how to fix it? The console is hardwired to the router, got assigned a fixed IP from the router (DHCP reservation), NAT Type reported Open as well. This is on Xbox Series X, Alpha-Skip Ahead branch.

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